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Sunday, 11 August 2002
GEORGIA HALTS NEW ABKHAZ INCURSION
By empty (8/11/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian officials claimed on 11 August that some 100-120 Russian and Abkhaz servicemen illegally crossed the Russian-Georgian border earlier that day via the Marukhi Pass from Karachaevo-Cherkessia into Abkhazia and are building fortifications 35-40 kilometers from the closest Georgian settlement. The Atsgara River valley runs southeast from Marukhi into the Kodori Gorge. (Caucasus Press).
Georgian officials claimed on 11 August that some 100-120 Russian and Abkhaz servicemen illegally crossed the Russian-Georgian border earlier that day via the Marukhi Pass from Karachaevo-Cherkessia into Abkhazia and are building fortifications 35-40 kilometers from the closest Georgian settlement. The Atsgara River valley runs southeast from Marukhi into the Kodori Gorge. (Caucasus Press)